Medi-Cal: specialty mental health services: performance outcome reports.

Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides that specialty mental health services are covered under the Medi-Cal program for eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries, including both adults and children, and coverage for those services is provided through mental health managed care plans. Existing law requires the department to develop a performance outcome system for Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment mental health…